{"id":234,"date":"2005-03-21T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valderbar.wordpress.com\/2005\/03\/21\/a-whisker-of-poetry\/"},"modified":"2005-03-21T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T23:23:00","slug":"a-whisker-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/2005\/03\/21\/a-whisker-of-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"a whisker of poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some of my simian readers, it is world poetry day so to mark to occasion a few words from Marge Piercy who obviously has had cats as her intimates. An excerpt from her pome, The Cat&#8217;s Song<\/p>\n<p>Come and I will teach you to dance as naturally<br \/>\nas falling asleep and waking and stretching long, long.<br \/>\nI speak greed with my paws and fear with my whiskers.<br \/>\nEnvy lashes my tail. Love speaks me entire, a word<\/p>\n<p>of fur. I will teach you to be still as an egg<br \/>\nand to slip like the ghost of the wind through the grass.<\/p>\n<p>and goodnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some of my simian readers, it is world poetry day so to mark to occasion a few words from Marge Piercy who obviously has had cats as her intimates. An excerpt from her pome, The Cat&#8217;s Song Come and I will teach you to dance as naturally as falling asleep and waking and stretching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}